It is very necessary to use a step by step decision making process so that you have a kind of a template and you do not have to invent the wheel again the again. The following steps that are listed below – the protocols would be actually found very useful.
Step 1: You must identify what you have to decide. Even though you know what you have to generally speak, you must write it down always before in very specific words.
Step 2: Every effective decision always requires you to collect all the necessary information about the various processes which are relevant to the decision that you are to make. It is a very important step that you must be very objective in collecting and also assessing this particular information.
Step 3: As you have to make a particular decision about a problem that you have to solve or you have to decide a course of action, it is a very important thing to note all the various possible alternatives. These alternatives can also be assesses for their efficacy by comparing and note down both there pros and cons.
Step 4: Try to get some important evidence for the various steps that you are following. It should be in the right always direction keeping in mind the big picture or the final outcome that you want to achieve.
Step 5: How to choose the best alternative once you have noted down all the pros and cons of the various alternatives, try to priorities the efforts, effects and also results. In fact this is the extension of the fourth step, but this step is of critical importance. This must be considered as a separate mode of action.
Step 6; Having gone through the process very carefully, you have to take the action very carefully. IT I s no use reaching a decision and not implementing it. Good implementation of a slightly weaker plan is much better than a poor implementation of a very good plan.
Step 7: It is always necessary to always review the decision and monitor till the finale. The things are changing fast in the business world or even in the personal arena. So agility to respond with the alertness is off critical importance.
Here is what some great people say about decision making:
- “Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful…”
― José N. Harris, MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love - “You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”
― Michelle Obama
